"The Ig Nobel Prizes honor achievements that make people LAUGH, and then THINK. The prizes are intended to celebrate the unusual, honor the imaginative — and spur people’s interest in science, medicine, and technology...MEDICINE PRIZE [ITALY, THE NETHERLANDS]
Silvano Gallus, for collecting evidence that
pizza might protect against illness and death, if the pizza is made and eaten in Italy.
MEDICAL EDUCATION PRIZE [USA]
Karen Pryor and Theresa McKeon, for
using a simple animal-training technique— called “clicker training” —to train surgeons to perform orthopedic surgery.
BIOLOGY PRIZE [SINGAPORE, CHINA, GERMANY, AUSTRALIA, POLAND, USA, BULGARIA]
Ling-Jun Kong, Herbert Crepaz, Agnieszka Górecka, Aleksandra Urbanek, Rainer Dumke, and Tomasz Paterek, for
discovering that dead magnetized cockroaches behave differently than living magnetized cockroaches.ANATOMY PRIZE [FRANCE]
Roger Mieusset and Bourras Bengoudifa, for
measuring scrotal temperature asymmetry in naked and clothed postmen in France.CHEMISTRY PRIZE [JAPAN]
Shigeru Watanabe, Mineko Ohnishi, Kaori Imai, Eiji Kawano, and Seiji Igarashi, for
estimating the total saliva volume produced per day by a typical five-year-old childENGINEERING PRIZE [IRAN]
Iman Farahbakhsh, for
inventing a diaper-changing machine for use on human infants.ECONOMICS PRIZE [TURKEY, THE NETHERLANDS, GERMANY]
Habip Gedik, Timothy A. Voss, and Andreas Voss, for
testing which country’s paper money is best at transmitting dangerous bacteria.PEACE PRIZE [UK, SAUDI ARABIA, SINGAPORE, USA]
Ghada A. bin Saif, Alexandru Papoiu, Liliana Banari, Francis McGlone, Shawn G. Kwatra, Yiong-Huak Chan, and Gil Yosipovitch, for
trying to measure the pleasurability of scratching an itch.PSYCHOLOGY PRIZE [GERMANY]
Fritz Strack, for
discovering that holding a pen in one’s mouth makes one smile, which makes one happier — and for then discovering that it does not.All peer-reviewed scientific papers.
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